Jozsef Alvinczi

Josef Alvinczi (1 February 1735-25 September 1810) was a Magyar general of the Austrian Empire.

Biography
Alvinczi was an ethnic Hungarian from Transylvania who served in the Austrian army in the Seven Years' War, fighting in the Battle of Torgau in 1760. He fought in the Austro-Turkish Wars of the 1770s and 1780s and later rose to command troops in the Italian theater of the French Revolutionary Wars. In November 1796 he was defeated at the Battle of Arcole by General Napoleon Bonaparte and at the Battle of Rivoli in 1797 again at Napoleon's hands. In 1808 he became a Field Marshal and he died two years later.